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We Still Outside in our 40s · What Tha Group Chat Say

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Vonnie: Welcome to What tha group Chat Say the podcast where the group chat.
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Finally got a mic.
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We're three friends in our forties talking about life, friendships, relationships, and everything we didn't see coming in this decade.
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I'm Vonnie here with Keya and Drea, and today the group chat is talking about travel random adventures and while we still outside in our forties.
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drea: I guess for me, I've been having a son who's been calling me middle age since I hit 40, that I need to stick to doing age appropriate activity.
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So maybe he, maybe he kind of broke that in for me.
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Vonnie: Wondering though, what activities were you doing that he figures is not age appropriate?
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Like it just when you go out?
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drea: let's see.
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When I go out, or sometimes when, oh, when I was going to, um, when I was gonna go to, to Jamaica, when I was gonna go to, what do you call it?
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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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drea: you know, stuff like that where he's just like, yeah, but usually when I'm going out, he is like, you should be doing age appropriate activities.
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Vonnie: I was gonna say when we're thinking about travel, when I think about travel and the three of us, obviously we've only done that, the three of us once, but my first memory that I always go back to that makes me laugh is you guys coming to, uh, the hotel in Miami?
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'cause we were going on the cruise the next day or that same day for you guys.
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'cause you guys came early in the morning, so here you come.
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Right?
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But then enters Drea with what I would only call like a crate.
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Like you could have fit a small child and a week's worth of clothes in that thing.
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And I'm thinking if we hadn't had a suite, I don't even know how that would've fit in a regular size cruise room.
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drea: on.
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thing had me angry the entire trip.
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It was so heavy.
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it is not, that is not size appropriate.
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Like when I say size appropriate, I mean, as soon as I got back, I gave that fucking thing to my son and was like, here you go.
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And he was like what is this for
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off, I said, this shit is almost as tall as me.
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I said, I could not lift this thing damn near the entire weekend.
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It had me angry, frustrated.
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Vonnie: I never seen a suitcase that large.
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drea: With that.
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I that big.
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I've never, you know, and I've never even packed that much before.
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I think that that was that last minute packing and had too much stuff.
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Keya: And you was leaving?
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Shit.
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were you I'm not taking this
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back.
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drea: Listen, everywhere I go, note to self, if you ever travel with me, if my suitcase is full, when I get there.
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And I buy some shit, I will leave some shit and I'll be like, well, we're in another country or we're in another place.
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Someone might need this because I'd rather take back the stuff I just bought and I ain't gonna wear this again.
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And I will leave some shit.
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I still leave shit to this day.
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I will leave some shit.
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When I went to the DR for my birthday, I think I left probably about five outfits there I was like, yeah, I'm just gonna leave them here.
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I told my friends, if you want it, if you don't want it, I'm gonna leave it here.
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You can have it.
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Otherwise I'm leaving it here.
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I'm quick to leave some I, like I
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Vonnie: Yeah, that was hilarious.
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drea: will never carry a suitcase that is as tall as me again in my life.
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Vonnie: So that was like, that is so big.
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I just remember you trying to like push it on.
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You were already cursing and I'm like, this is day zero at this point.
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Like it is me count at day one, but
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drea: The struggle was real, dude.
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It was real
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didn't do that on the first cruise I went on.
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But this cruise, we
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Vonnie: it was a little longer.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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drea: yeah.
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I was like, I just packed everything.
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But yeah, that, that's a really good memory of just the fuckery,
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Keya: That was the shit we definitely should have recorded because baby, she was str.
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When I tell you baby, no, no.
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Okay.
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If I could sit on it this way, I, it'll close and then no.
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No guys, no, I got it.
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Vonnie: Like, okay.
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drea: so, so I live upstairs.
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Can you imagine me having to pull that damn suitcase up my
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Vonnie: Oh, I know you were hot.
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drea: that suitcase went to my waist?
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Like
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Keya: that shit was crazy.
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drea: started at my waist and nothing was right at 50 pounds.
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Like,
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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drea: yeah, never again.
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Vonnie: Yeah, I'm almost extreme.
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I'm always extreme, but you know what?
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You do have to learn because from my work travels and not wanting to have luggage and stuff lost, I'm actually on this Greece trip that's coming up for me.
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It's an eight day cruise.
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That's the longest cruise I've been on.
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And so plus a day of travel each way, I'm still gonna try to do, just to carry on.
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I dunno if I'm gonna make that work, but I'm gonna try.
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Keya: Oh, you are good.
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drea: would be a no for me, because I'm a, and and, and I'm a light traveler, like me and Keya have went.
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Like I said, we've learned to pack very light for a long period of
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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drea: But what I've realized when I do these trips is I think one time I think I put everything in, I think I put all my outfits.
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Yes.
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When I went to Egypt, I put all my outfits in.
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A Ziploc bag.
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Right.
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You know, the big
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Vonnie: Mm-hmm.
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drea: And I put my outfits together so they were already together because I had to strategically make sure I had two outfits for each day.
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For each event.
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And we had what, five, six days?
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Keya: We did.
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Yep.
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drea: that helped me where I was able to put everything in one check-in.
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I had a few things in my carry-on just in case my baggage got lost.
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And then we had an extra bag in our bag 'cause we knew we were gonna buy stuff.
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and so that like really helped.
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But for eight days Yeah.
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To fit it in a carry-on.
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I'd have to be a skinny little bitch.
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Like I'd have to wear a size two.
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'cause there ain't no way.
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Even if I took a pair of jeans or Yeah.
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There's no way.
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There's no way.
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And then, I don't know, because like could see why, like on the cruise ship, you could totally rock the same pair of shoes all day, every
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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drea: what if you stop in one place and you be like, oh hell no.
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These shoes ain't gonna cut it.
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But then you could buy stuff.
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So I don't know.
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That's,
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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drea: know.
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I would go with a, I would, I would go with a medium sized check-in.
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'cause what if you buy something,
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Keya: Especially from Greece.
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'cause I want a souvenir.
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Dammit Gimme my damn souvenir.
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drea: But are you gonna stop at another country on your way there?
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Because.
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flying all this time, huh, Keya, wouldn't you agree?
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Like we need to start having an eight hour layover
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somewhere
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Keya: Yeah.
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drea: say we saw this place and run back.
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Or even
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Keya: Yeah,
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drea: stay, just because traveling that far, I feel like I need to see as much as I can because we're getting older the economy is,
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you
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Keya: absolutely.
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drea: well as just the world, right?
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Like you gotta knock out stuff as
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much
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Vonnie: That's like the,
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drea: that far.
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Vonnie: I agree with that.
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That was like the first time I went to Hawaii.
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We weren't staying on Oahu, which is where Honolulu is.
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We were going to the island of Hawaii or the big island.
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But you, the plane will always stop at Honolulu first, and then you get off and you get on and then you're on a plane that goes from island to island.
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And so when I realized that, I go, well, why don't I just pick up the next day because that will give me 24 hour.
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I hadn't been here ever before.
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That's not a lot of time for Honolulu, 24 hours.
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But I thought, okay, well at least I could see a little bit of two islands on this trip instead of just the airport.
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Right.
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So I agree with that.
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I mean that was, and and then the next time I went back to Hawaii, I stayed in Oahu, but I had kind of known what I wanted to do because like I said, 24 hours wasn't enough.
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And I was like, okay, these are the things that I didn't even get to.
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So for sure.
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And then we had a whole week there, so Yes.
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But Keya, you're going on a trip tomorrow.
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You're leaving?
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Yeah.
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Where are you going?
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Keya: In the morning.
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Um, so I'd be lying if I told you I knew anywhere that this cruise is stopping other than Jamaica.
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Um,
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Vonnie: was my point.
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Keya: I that Listen, just, just go ahead.
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'cause I need a vacation, baby.
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I'm, I'm due.
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am over it.
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Uh,
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drea: I'm, uh, the itch is real.
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Keya: yeah.
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drea: guys.
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Keya: yeah.
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drea: When I hop in my
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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'cause you drive all the time.
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Keya: Oh, so going, I'm going to Ocho Rios and Grand
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Vonnie: Okay.
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Keya: So
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Vonnie: that's nice.
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drea: Oh, okay.
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Vonnie: Ochos Rios is nice.
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drea: Okay, so let's talk
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Vonnie: Okay.
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drea: real quick
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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drea: we've all been,
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um, okay.
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So I know for me, I, my time wasn't that great 'cause the people I went with, but at the same time, I made the best of
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it,
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Vonnie: Mm-hmm.
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drea: gonna have to say for me, um, I, if I go back, I wanna go with my friend who's from there because I wasn't a big fan.
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willing to go back one more time, either with my friend or to a different part.
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think being to other places, Jamaica was expensive and overrated for me, just for my pocketbook and just for the environment.
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Just me personally.
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I, like, I, it's not a place I have to go back to, I guess I should say.
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I dunno,
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what do
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Keya: So,
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so for me, like the first time I ever, ever went was on a cruise with the boy, with my boys.
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And when we did
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Vonnie: Yep.
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Keya: had a ball,
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went somewhere local.
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Like, we ate on the beach, like, and we seen all the people and, and dude was like, yeah, you
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can
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Vonnie: Mm-hmm.
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Keya: No, thank
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Uh, I'm getting back on the ship.
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But, um, so I had fun then.
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And then when I went back with my brothers, we stayed at a all inclusive, so that to me was bomb.
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And we went during the time where they had, oh God, what is it called?
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Um, where all the
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Vonnie: reggae
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Fest.
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Keya: and
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the dance hall.
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Yeah.
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And so them people was up partying until like 12 in the afternoon the next day.
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Like, and we wanted to go, but then I was like, yeah, now I'm gonna, I'm gonna stay back.
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So we ended up staying back.
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But then I had a good time.
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I do agree.
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It was hella expensive.
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But I did, I did enjoy Jamaica going into, um, the local parts and you know, of course they always tell you, Hey, stay away from this or stay away from that 'cause you can get robbed and this and that.
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But I feel like going into these other countries, if we don't act like these siddity ass stupid
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ass
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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Keya: Right.
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drea: listen,
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Keya: Like we,
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drea: jacket and jacked really easy too.
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Keya: So yeah.
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drea: you're saying about having fun 'cause they do party.
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I did the whole all inclusive thing.
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just for me, I feel that I've been to other beautiful beaches
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Keya: Now that I
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drea: to and I don't always, I, I would have to say, okay, so for me, right, people would say, oh, you're the clever, you're the person who goes out, out of all three of us.
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Right?
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And Keya will go out too.
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But when I travel out places, I don't always club or go out like that, if that makes sense.
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I'm going for a purpose.
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And it's not really to turn up in that sense.
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So I think for me, didn't really have to do the club scene there because we could have went and I passed up on that too,
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Keya: Yeah.
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drea: kind of like, uh, good.
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Like I'm trying to relax.
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Like if there's a ocean there, I'm trying to chill and relax.
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You feel what I'm saying?
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Um, just because.
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My ocean trips for me are more of a turnup.
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Now, if I was going to like Atlanta, New York or something, I'm more likely to be interested in the, um, nightlife than I kind of am when I'm out if that makes sense.
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Keya: Yeah.
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drea: why that is about me, but I think because when I'm going to these different places, I think I have a purpose of things I wanna see or do that I don't know.
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Keya: No, that makes total sense.
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'cause like, um, even when we went to Dubai, it was kind of like, oh, okay.
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Like we asked around like where was the club scene?
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But we still, it wasn't like, okay, we need to go.
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We said if we ever came back, we would try to hit that up.
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But no, I totally get it because like I'm in this other country and I ain't here to go to the club scene.
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I'm here to see what this country has to offer.
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So,
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Vonnie: I think so.
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I, I hear what you're saying, Drea, and I don't disagree.
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I, mine was the same as Keya.
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The first time I went to Jamaica for, it was a carnival cruise, so it was a good time because it was short.
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Right.
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And you have an itinerary of X, Y, and Z and you gotta pack that in.
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And, um, so I had fun with my family.
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The second time also was a all-inclusive resort.
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And I had fun.
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But like you're saying, Andrea, it could have been anywhere.
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You know what I mean?
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Like, it wasn't, I, it wasn't Jamaica.
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That made it fun where we've been to other places where I was like, oh, this is here.
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And I think that because I've gone to the Caribbean a lot, a lot and um, but yeah, that, and maybe because Jamaica's probably one of those things that's hyped up here in America and you know what I mean?
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And I think if I had.
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If I hadn't gone to other places, like we've all been to Belize, we've been to do, you know, like, I think that, although that's not a Caribbean, but these island locations, right?
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So there were some places like that, like going to Belize and the things that I've done there that I, it seemed real specific to Belize and, um, like the Spice Farms and all that stuff.
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And so just maybe I could say maybe I didn't go on the right.
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We didn't go on any, I didn't leave the resort really the second time I went.
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And so that was a good time.
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But it was, like I said, I could, I'm gonna have a great time at an all inclusive resort with my people,
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we're at.
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so yeah.
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But Jamaica in and of itself, now I, I think I can agree with that.
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But are you an itinerary person or you like to just Yeah.
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drea: It depends.
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The more I travel, the more I like to have a itinerary, like about five days.
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I'm good with a itinerary for like two, maybe three, but I need two that are not, that are like spontaneous because I notice that sometimes you look up stuff to do, but then when you're there, you find other things to do.
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Or maybe you just
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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drea: You know what
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don't need to be, I don't need to be busy anymore the whole entire time.
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Like I feel like Dubai, we did a lot, right Keya,
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Keya: Yeah.
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drea: but we also had our chill time or like, oh, let's try this, or let's do this type of thing.
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Um, so yeah, I, I used to be the itinerary person, but I did wanna say, do you feel like is 'cause like Shavonne, you're married Keya, when you went, you were single once and then married, right?
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Or no?
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Single
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both
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Keya: Um, I was single both times 'cause Yeah,
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drea: Because like, do you feel like, do you feel like traveling and wanting to go out to the club or party scene or attention or stuff like that makes it, would you think that that would make a difference for people?
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As far as like the party scene when they travel.
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Keya: yeah.
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I do.
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I a hundred percent do because like, I,
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drea: of going out?
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right,
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Keya: right, because I feel like also too traveling as younger people and not as the senior citizens that these kids think we are, uh, that I, I think it's a difference.
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'cause now we're looking more for culture and like, what is, you know, like what is this country about?
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Where I think as younger.
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The younger us would probably definitely be like, oh, where's the nightlife?
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Where's, 'cause I remember traveling then, like, you know, my younger self and it's like, oh, sh I need to bring clothes for the club.
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Like, you know,
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I I definitely think the perspective shift.
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Yeah.
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drea: In my twenties and thirties, I always have my club clothes.
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Even when I go back home to la
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I used
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Keya: Yeah.
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drea: you know what
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Keya: Yep,
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drea: Now I'm like, um, if y'all trying to do something, you need to let me know ahead of time because otherwise.
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Listen, I'm just packing my regular old clothes, guys,
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Vonnie: I think because especially when you're younger, which make, like I said, it's hyped up.
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It was hyped up because marijuana here was illegal all over.
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So to go to Jamaica was like where you could do that and it could be legal.
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And now, especially now that we're older and we live in a state where it's legal and there are a lot of states where it's legal.
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You don't need Jamaica for that.
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So that was their, Hey, come over here.
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You can smoke weed.
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And it could be, you know, so even if you didn't smoke weed on a regular basis here illegally, it was just some sort of allure that now I think is kind of like, it's not even a novelty to smoke weed or to have people around you.
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drea: weed in Jamaica was not, was not, um, it, it, the
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Vonnie: yeah.
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drea: was just not like
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they tried to charge me like 10, $15 for a damn blunt, like a joint.
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I was like, you got to be fucking kidding me.
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It was like, oh.
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And I was like,
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Keya: That.
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Um,
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drea: sense why we would party more.
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It's kind of like when we did start coming legal, traveling, I, wasn't legal here, I preferred
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Vonnie: Right.
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drea: where it
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you know what I'm saying?
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Um, just because I couldn't, like, I could not hear if that makes sense.
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Keya: it does.
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'cause that definitely
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with the last one,
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that was the big allure for me.
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'cause I always said I would smoke with him and that's the only time he would allow, he said that I was able to smoke, quote unquote, is if we went to Jamaica.
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So it makes sense like that now that you point that out, Bonnie.
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'cause that was the hype.
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'cause it was always like, oh, when I go to Jamaica I'm finna smoke.
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But then.
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Vonnie: I
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am not a smoker.
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Keya: not a then when I went like, so when I went, when I was older,
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Vonnie: don't wanna smoke.
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Keya: oh,
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Vonnie: Drea, even if you are a smoker, you're like, but now I can smoke whatever I want.
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And it's still not, I don't have to.
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So that part that, so I understand that if you haven't been to any sort of Caribbean place, we're not saying don't go to Jamaica.
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I'm saying if you've been to the other ones, you're not gonna find anything new in Jamaica.
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I'm probably gonna get flamed.
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The jerk was not that impressive.
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Keya: Yo, I'm glad you said that because the jerk on
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the resort not.
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drea: I feel like I
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Vonnie: And that's probably it though.
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'cause I was an all-inclusive resort, so I, I should say I haven't had jerk from somebody else's house.
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I don't have like a friend who's Jamaican who took me to like a local spot.
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I'm just saying the, you would think that the resort will wanna represent, but maybe they don't.
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But I'm so, the jerk that I had in Jamaica, I was ready for it and I was like, eh, eh.
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drea: you know what, I guess for me, I, I'm not a big jerk person, period.
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Like, it's not like if I go somewhere, like when we went to the Jamaican places here, I'm just kind like,
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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Well,
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drea: chicken,
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Vonnie: same, same.
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But I thought, okay, it's the same thing with wine.
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I think that I don't, I know.
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I was like, I'm not really a wine fan, but I was in Northern California and I was like, well, let me go to a winery here, because that I think should be the test if I'm here in wine country and still don't like wine.
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Well it can't be 'cause I'm having crap wine.
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I can have what people consider good wine from these good locations right out of their dang vineyard.
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And I'm like, eh, I'd rather have a cocktail.
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Keya: Girl.
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Yeah, I drink, like I tried to do the whole wine thing too.
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Like I've gotten more into it.
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'cause like a lot of the women at um, my church are like wine drinkers and I'm like, well then maybe I'm just the hood one.
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'cause like give me the liquor.
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But like I, so I'm still not a wine connoisseur.
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I still drink sweet
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Vonnie: Yes,
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Keya: 'cause that's this,
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that whole little, oh, this red pairs well
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Vonnie: it tastes like a bark of a tree.
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dirt.
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the dirt on the grapes.
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That's what I tasted when I with red wine.
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Every time, every glass.
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I'm, it's like, so there's some soot at the bottom or so it always tastes like dirt, and I'm like, this can't be, maybe it's an acquired taste.
21:57
I mean, beer tastes like gasoline if I'm assuming what gasoline tastes like.
22:01
So maybe you just gotta acquire that taste.
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drea: and
22:05
I
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Keya: right.
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drea: I will take a beer over wine any day.
22:10
Vonnie: take those apple cider beers.
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drea: in front of me, if you put two in front of me and you say you have to
22:17
Vonnie: Yeah,
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drea: and you know, I don't drink
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if you say you have to drink one, I'm going straight for the beer.
22:23
I'm going for the wheat beer if possible.
22:25
Blue Moon, you know something.
22:27
But like I can manage to drink a beer before I
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Vonnie: if
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drea: to drink
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a
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Vonnie: it's white,
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I can drink a white
22:34
Keya: drink Yeah.
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If
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drea: wine.
22:37
gives me a headache.
22:38
I can't drink.
22:38
Yeah.
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I gimme the cheap shit.
22:40
Gimme the sweet, cheap
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shit.
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Vonnie: wineca.
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drea: what
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I
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Vonnie: want aca.
22:43
Keya: I want a
22:44
drea: I
22:44
Keya: or
22:45
drea: party.
22:47
Keya: I'm like, Moscato Riesling.
22:49
Like anything that
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has
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Vonnie: Yep.
22:51
Keya: sugar
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drea: even
22:53
Vonnie: I need a hot, my cousin used to make wines and she did it with the hybrid.
23:00
Uh, I think there was even some, there was some spirits in there.
23:03
That's probably why I like it 'cause it's more of like, of a cocktail.
23:06
And now that wine I could drink,
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But yeah, for people who love wine are in it and I've just never acquired that taste for sure.
23:16
What was the best place you guys have traveled to and for what reason
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Keya: I'm gonna say Egypt Egypt was
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Vonnie: Mm.
23:29
Keya: for
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was pretty, Egypt was at time, not only because it was like to see the pyramids, but then when we got to go inside of one and to see the hieroglyphs and to see that.
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All the stuff that they tried to hide about it being black people or African people, like to see it on the walls was like, wow.
24:01
Like that to me was notch.
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And then like, I know y'all don't read the Bible, but then relating it back to what I read and what I read in the Bible and seeing it on the wall, baby, that was amazing.
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And then going into the tombs, um, like at the museum they, you know, how they revere their dead, like how they honor their dead and to see that, damn, these are my ancestors for real.
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Like you could see, from the Africans then how they started mis imaginating, like with the difference.
24:44
The people there in Egypt, like, it, it, it all made sense.
24:50
You know how like back in the day they tried to separate Egypt from Africa, like Egypt ain't in Africa.
24:56
Like, the hell?
24:58
So that to me was, I, I loved it.
25:01
And then sailing down the Nile River, was amazing for me.
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So I'm,
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drea: that,
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Keya: gonna go Egypt for me.
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drea: So.
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I look at it on a cultural stance, like if I'm there for like cultural and like, oh my gosh, Egypt too, because I always wanted to go there since I was a kid, you know?
25:23
Um, I think being Mexican, back when we were kids, there wasn't a lot of people on TV that looked similar or kind of like me, right.
25:33
And even though like, you know, Cleopatra wasn't who she really was, but they demonstrated her on TV like that more my complexion when
25:40
Vonnie: Yeah.
25:41
drea: back, you know, stuff like
25:42
And even when I went to Egypt, huh Keya, a lot of people was like, kept
25:45
really
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Keya: Are you Egyptian?
25:47
Yep,
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drea: Yeah.
25:49
and so I would've to say Egypt was very touching for me.
25:54
It was like she said, the culture, the pyramids, it was everything that I ever imagined it to be.
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It was if that makes sense.
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Like there was no, there was no, oh, this is not a hype.
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This was their life.
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Like, oh my gosh.
26:08
Like how huge.
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The, you know, the pyramids were how huge the, you know, the finks was, that's how you say it,
26:16
right?
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Keya: Yep.
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drea: all of that going into the pyramid.
26:19
I got, I got claustrophobic.
26:22
But I had to do it and I did it.
26:24
You know what I'm saying?
26:25
Um, I don't know how anybody taller than me and Keya managed in that shit, I'll tell you that.
26:30
Um, because I felt like I was walking in a L shape, like in to get in, um, the Nile River is what broke me when we were going down the Nile River.
26:41
I was like, we are really here, like going, floating down the Nile River.
26:45
Um, so yeah, Egypt is, is like right there.
26:48
Next for me would be for me would be when I went to Cancun and I went to the pyramids there.
26:55
And I think because of being Mexican descent, I felt very grounded and I could feel the energy there so much more stronger than in Egypt, as far as that goes.
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But the Egypt pyramids were fascinating, but I could feel that this is where my ancestry, ancestry.
27:12
I can't even talk.
27:12
But, you know, um, is, so that was also a really big one for me when I went to the ruins.
27:19
Um, because for me that was like my cultural background, if that makes sense.
27:24
And then to be able to go to both and hear how in Mexico they talked about, you know, how they all connect and how all these pyramids in these two different locations were built around the same time.
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Sim different
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Vonnie: Yeah.
27:40
drea: but similarities.
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Right?
27:41
then to go to Egypt, who didn't wanna acknowledge that there was any other kind of pyramids, I thought was very interesting to me.
27:48
Where Mexico, when I was there, they acknowledged the other pyramids in Egypt, if that makes sense.
27:54
Um, and the, and the history that they gave.
27:56
So I, I felt the energy more there in Mexico, but the awe and fascination and oh my God, this is like was Egypt.
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So it'd be Egypt and then their coach for culture.
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Vonnie: interesting.
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Yeah.
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I've never been to Egypt and it's crazy because I've heard that it's awful.
28:18
Like they hound you if you're a woman and all of that stuff.
28:21
So it's great to hear you guys hack.
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drea: it's, it's,
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Vonnie: Yeah,
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drea: like hound?
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Vonnie: Yeah,
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drea: wanna try to
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buy, I will say this, was one of the most frustrating things is them trying to sell us stuff.
28:35
It was worse than going to Mexico.
28:36
I don't know if you've been to Mexico, where they try to, like, you've been to the border, they wanna try to
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Vonnie: yeah,
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drea: was like a whole nother level.
28:43
So yes, they did constantly try to sell us stuff.
28:46
I will say that.
28:48
but when you look
28:49
past
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Vonnie: Yeah,
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drea: we are from a big
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is that gonna really bother us?
28:53
You know, we know how to, we know how to tell homeless people.
28:55
Get the fuck on.
28:56
You know what I'm saying?
28:57
Um.
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Yeah.
28:59
So that is, that is a little, that was a little weird.
29:03
Not weird.
29:03
That was a little like annoying at times, I would say.
29:06
But for the most part, when you look past that, it was like was so kind, respectful because of their religion.
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They did not, we, yes, we had to be culturally sensitive to
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Vonnie: of course.
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drea: dressed, right?
29:21
Or presented ourselves as women, but the respect that we got as women there and the kindness that people had, even the ones who maybe weren't so kind, like the people hounding to sell you stuff, they weren't fear.
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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drea: them.
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Vonnie: Yeah, no, that's nice to hear.
29:38
'cause I was always scared of going there, so I, I, that's great because I've always wanted to be, and probably for that, but for me, since I haven't been there, culturally it would be the same.
29:48
It wasn't Cancun.
29:49
That was probably my least favorite place in Mexico.
29:52
Um, and that's only because I stayed near the port and I never really got off of the touristy area.
29:59
So that's on me on why Cancun wasn't my favorite, but I.
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Yeah.
30:05
Yeah, exactly.
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Like I didn't get, I didn't get, yeah, no, I didn't get past that part, so I knew I wasn't getting the best of it.
30:12
But, you know, when I went to, um, Costa May, that was really beautiful and I went to those pyramids and, and to be able to, you know, walk up on those ruins.
30:25
And we took, had a tour guide who was really great and she, you know, just hearing the history and I love hearing about all of that stuff.
30:34
but I understand the difference that you just said, Drea, because it wasn't my cultural background.
30:42
So I didn't feel that grounded part that you were saying.
30:45
It was more like the awe part, right.
30:48
So I would love to have that same thing plus the connection that I'd probably also have in Egypt.
30:54
but it was just really, I love those old ruins.
30:58
I really wanna get to Peru.
30:59
I want to see.
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Those ruins out there.
31:02
I know that it's getting, it was so,
31:05
the tourists have ruined it and now you can't get as close as you could to go to Machu Picchu.
31:10
I think that's how you pronounce it.
31:11
But, um, yeah,
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everywhere, every, okay, heard Love it.
31:20
drea: loved it when we went to Belize, like, 'cause
31:22
Belize, we
31:24
Keya: gorgeous.
31:24
Yes,
31:26
drea: I absolutely loved Belize and I wanna go back and go to the other side of it.
31:32
I had a blast in Belize that
31:34
was probably
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Keya: definitely.
31:36
drea: Like we had
31:37
a great
31:38
Keya: had an amazing time in Belize
31:41
drea: what a lot of people don't know about Belize is their native language is actually English.
31:46
And a lot of people think that it's Spanish and it's not.
31:49
So their money's in English.
31:51
Keya: It is.
31:52
drea: Their, their, their, uh, their signs on the road are in English.
31:56
You know what I'm saying?
31:57
So for someone who wants to go to experience what they would think, like a Latin culture, right?
32:04
or you know, where they do speak like Spanish, but wanna feel like they can still travel and understand what's going on.
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Vonnie: I love Belize too.
32:13
Yeah.
32:13
I, no complaints there.
32:15
We went to, we were probably on the other side, um, from you all.
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We went to the, um, we were at a, a cacao farm and
32:25
to be able to,
32:26
Keya: Hmm.
32:27
Vonnie: yeah, we got to kind of hike up and we got the, I mean, straight.
32:31
They picked one that was fresh still.
32:33
And so tasting that, like, I'm not a big chocolate fan anyway, but tasting that was just different.
32:39
It's not great.
32:39
It's nasty, but it's supposed to be 'cause it hasn't developed or whatever.
32:43
But it was just different, like seeing it in a green shell and it's white and then they showed how, you know.
32:50
They make it and roast it.
32:52
And it was great.
32:52
My husband is a very good connector like Keya is.
32:57
He's able to really, um, you know, meet people and have them kind of take to him instantly.
33:04
I repel people, so, but he was kind of really joking with them
33:08
and we were,
33:09
Keya: people.
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drea: I know she res
33:12
people.
33:13
Oh
33:13
Vonnie: I, I'm not, you know, my first impressions are not great, but we were about to leave.
33:18
But, and so since it was kind of over, they were, it was like a family run farm and so they were making their own tamales on their personal, like Kamal or whatever, right out the side there.
33:27
And he was looking, he was like, Ooh, that looks good.
33:30
And.
33:31
They gave us some to take back on the tour bus.
33:33
Him and I, nobody else got, and they just whipped out tamale's for us, straight hot off the press.
33:39
They were amazingly delicious.
33:41
And I was just, just the friendliness of the people, just the, it was beautiful, beautiful.
33:47
Um, so I did like Belize, but yeah, I, I like Costa Maya may better.
33:52
Um, there are a lot of things right.
33:54
I think I, um, conceived in Costa Maya May, but um, although that didn't have a happy ending still, it was just like a memorable experience there for me.
34:06
when I went to Puerto Rico, the first trip.
34:10
First trip post pandemic, though, when I went to Puerto Rico was probably my favorite with my uncle and my cousins because we had been cooped up, we had been cooped up for years, and they had that little window where they were like, okay, travel again, and then shut that back down.
34:26
So in that window we got to go out.
34:29
You still had to mask up in Puerto Rico, but just being able to be out to have that whole, just the travel experience.
34:39
And we got an Airbnb, we were out, we weren't in, um, San Juan, we were outside of it.
34:45
We were kind of in more of the, I kind of in like a, the rainforest area, and it was just.
34:52
It looked like a multimillion dollar house.
34:56
And, um, we had it all to ourselves and we were loud and crazy, and that was probably like the most fun I had on the trip.
35:05
but yes, as far as like cultural and like a regular vacation, taking all of that extra thing out of it, I would, I would say there or anywhere that Mexican Riviera Cruise that I took.
35:18
drea: I really, I really liked Puerto Rico.
35:21
I would go back, but I would, I wouldn't
35:23
Vonnie: Mm-hmm.
35:26
drea: the, in the cobblestone
35:28
Vonnie: That's brutal.
35:29
drea: a you hear me when I tell you it was a beast and I only had sandals 'cause I thought I was gonna be cute and it was a beast.
35:39
And, um, you know, my booty got tired or while I was there, which is great.
35:43
All the walking and stuff, you know, the sun is the sun.
35:48
Like, matter of fact, I went to Puerto Rico the first two times for the first time.
35:51
It'll be two
35:52
Vonnie: Oh wow.
35:53
drea: that I went to Puerto
35:55
And And um, I was there like five or six days.
36:00
did a lot of stuff, to the rainforest.
36:03
It was beautiful.
36:04
I would go back there, but when I
36:06
tell
36:06
Vonnie: Oof.
36:06
drea: it
36:07
Vonnie: Yeah,
36:09
drea: I, I was glad that when me, my, that was like a spear of the moment.
36:13
It was literally my friend's, my friend telling me two weeks before, girl, can you get off work?
36:17
You wanna go to port, uh, Puerto Rico?
36:19
My friend lives there, has an extra room.
36:22
We could stay there for free.
36:23
You wanna roll?
36:24
Absolutely, let's go.
36:25
You know, so it was one of those things.
36:27
But then when I was there and I started researching like the cost of places to stay and all of those things, I was like, and then, you know, just different things.
36:36
I was like, oh,
36:38
Keya: Yeah.
36:39
'cause Puerto Rico was definitely a,
36:40
but
36:40
Vonnie: That humidity,
36:42
oof.
36:42
Keya: tell Was crazy when we went, yo, we stopped at their,
36:51
um,
36:51
Vonnie: Yeah,
36:53
right by the fountains and stuff?
36:56
Keya: powder.
36:57
Yes, like we went and got baby
36:59
powder.
37:00
Vonnie: Yep.
37:00
Keya: mama used
37:01
if your mama used to do it, Drea, but like from the Midwest, our parents would
37:07
Vonnie: Yep.
37:07
Keya: neck
37:09
down with baby powder, so it would soak up to sweat.
37:13
Baby.
37:13
We was in there.
37:14
We had baby powder.
37:16
We did the whole, our neck, our chest.
37:19
I'm putting baby powder in my pants, like it, that humidity was
37:25
drea: Listen, powder.
37:27
Baby, baby Powder wasn't doing it for me.
37:29
I literally took my deodorant bar and was like putting it between my legs, under my arms, under my breasts.
37:35
I was like, I don't know what else to make this stop, but this right here.
37:40
And I went at a time where it wasn't as humid 'cause it's like, you know, it's, they're cooler time, I guess.
37:46
But yes, I, I'm right there with you.
37:47
The humidity thought was gonna take me out.
37:51
And then with the sun raise too, I was like, wow.
37:54
I came back very tanned.
37:55
I will say that.
37:56
Um, which I, I need, right?
37:59
But yeah, it,
38:01
Vonnie: Yeah, you'll get a tan there.
38:02
I came back tan, I remember.
38:04
So I've gone a few times.
38:05
The first time I went, well, my husband and I went, uh, on our honeymoon and that was one of the last stops, I believe, but it was in November.
38:15
So we're thinking, okay, it's November.
38:17
It's on the east side, it was 98 degrees and humid.
38:23
It was, like you said, hiking up those cobblestones.
38:26
Uh, we loved it though.
38:28
There was taco trucks, um, and that was really good.
38:32
But yeah, all that walk, so I was prepared.
38:34
'cause yes, the first time you walk, you think, okay, sandals, it's Puerto Rico, Uhuh.
38:38
That's not the move.
38:39
So if you've never been to Puerto Rico, that is not the move you're gonna be in San Juan.
38:43
And so the next time I knew and I saw my cousins wearing them sandals or those cute shoes, and I'm like, Nope.
38:48
I'm, uh, I know those hills are steep and Yes,
38:54
drea: memory foam sandals.
38:56
My sketcher sandals did me right there.
38:59
You know what I'm saying?
39:00
Once I switched to them, but I did like that there's a castle over the water.
39:04
I
39:06
There's a lot of history in Puerto Rico.
39:08
Puerto Rico is a beautiful place.
39:11
Um,
39:11
Keya: Rico is gorgeous.
39:14
drea: and if you don't have a passport, I definitely suggest going there.
39:18
You know what I mean?
39:18
Like, I, I'm, I'm here for Puerto Rico, definitely.
39:21
Vonnie: Because that gives you that feel of one of those Caribbean vacations if you don't have a passport.
39:28
Um, yes.
39:30
Uh, if you don't have a passport, Puerto Rico, and if you can get yourself to Hawaii, that's the best things that I think America has to offer.
39:39
Keya: it does a whole rainforest it that's a, a one thing that they really don't know.
39:47
And I was gonna say, the thing that tripped me out was the school buses in Puerto Rico.
39:53
The kids go to school with music bumping like their school.
39:58
What?
39:58
I was like, yo, they.
40:01
They went and we were like, what?
40:04
Like this is on the street like this, how they going to school?
40:07
Like it was amazing.
40:09
I
40:09
love
40:09
Vonnie: Culture.
40:10
I love it.
40:12
Keya: culture.
40:13
Vonnie: really what I like about trips nowadays.
40:15
I'm saying like you're, you know, I like to go there and I am an itinerary person.
40:21
Uh, I don't mind, like you're saying, Drea, of having some time where I, we step back and there's nothing to do.
40:27
But I don't like going on a trip that a hundred percent has no plan.
40:32
I have found, I have found those trips to be the worst for me.
40:38
Um, I would much rather have those trips where you come back and you need a vacation for your vacation 'cause you did too much and maybe you should have put in some days, but at least I have memories of those trips.
40:48
Those trips that were straight vibes or you didn't know from here to there.
40:53
It's just, for me, I don't find that relaxing and that could just be my personality of control freakiness, but I need a little something I.
41:02
drea: there.
41:04
right there with you.
41:05
I'm, I'm right there with you.
41:06
I, I need to have, to have a balance.
41:08
I went there for a reason.
41:10
I, I don't like traveling with people who wanna sleep in all day and sit they ass in that damn hotel or something because I'm like, why are we here then for this?
41:18
Like, we could've did a
41:19
staycation,
41:19
Like, bro, you
41:20
kept your ass home.
41:22
Um, 'cause, because you gotta do something.
41:25
I will say that makes me think back to when we went on our, all went on that cruise together.
41:29
When you're talking about my bag, right?
41:32
I think I got to the point where I remember getting upset where I was like, girl, why are you planning so much stuff for us?
41:37
Isn't this a day we're supposed to just sit on the boat?
41:40
Like, you know what I'm saying?
41:41
Like, I, I got it, but at the same time I was like, why can't we just rest for a second and why do we have to go cycling
41:48
you a moment, I was having a moment.
41:53
I was like,
41:54
Vonnie: You were like f this.
41:57
drea: I. Right.
41:59
I was like, my ass was hurting on the damn cycler.
42:02
And I was like, um, yeah, this, this ain't, this ain't my thing guys.
42:06
Like, um, I didn't, I'm working out, when we go on hiking or something into the water, like I'll go swim and get my exercise in.
42:17
I'm gonna go to the pool.
42:19
Keya: And that's funny, I think I am more of.
42:24
I, I like the fly by the seat of the pants.
42:27
Like, I, I can get one or two days where we're just okay.
42:33
Yeah.
42:33
But I'm, I'm more like, oh, okay, we gonna step outside and see, um, we gonna walk into the hood and see what we gonna get into.
42:41
So like, I like that and maybe, I don't know, maybe that's just the, the crazy Chicago in me that's like, hell, let's get off and
42:49
Vonnie: Yeah, no.
42:51
drea: like the balance.
42:52
It's, it's about a balance.
42:54
'cause I like to get off too and just be like, okay, what are we doing next?
42:57
Like, think when like, okay, so when we went on our first cruise and we went to The Bahamas, right, just like, what are we gonna do?
43:04
Like everybody else was like, oh, we're gonna do excursions or we're gonna go to the little thing.
43:07
And we was like, oh, we gonna get these golf carts and we gonna roll the golf cart, get lost.
43:12
Um, found another beach, just kind of played it by ear and just made sure we made it back to the boat in time.
43:18
I liked that because we just kind of went into the, you know, their, their areas and we didn't have anything planned.
43:25
We just knew we needed to be back on the boat in time to get, you know, back.
43:30
and I liked, I had liked that because we just kind of played it by ear and went and went for it.
43:35
Vonnie: That's too.
43:37
Yeah, I get, I, it's probably 'cause I get anxiety if I feel like I'm lost.
43:41
And so if I'm just roaming aimlessly in another country, that's probably triggers that for me.
43:47
But at least if I know I have a plan, um, then I can get there and get back, then it feels a lot better because I don't like the feeling of not knowing where I am.
43:58
So
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drea: Yeah.
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One or two activities for
44:05
Vonnie: yeah,
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drea: a day,
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even just one big activity and then doing whatever
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later
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Vonnie: a sweet spot,
44:12
drea: I'm okay with I could have some days where it's filled and then some days where it's just like, oh, let's see.
44:18
'cause there's been so many times where we've went somewhere and I, you know, you do, I always need a vacation.
44:24
From a vacation because you know me, I
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Vonnie: right.
44:26
drea: work the next day,
44:28
that we get back.
44:29
But,
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But I, I do, I do like being busy to a point, not too much busy because I like to be able to see, 'cause when you get there, whether it's a state or a country, there's
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Vonnie: Mm-hmm.
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drea: what you think is
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And you, you hear that from like the locals or talking to people.
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And if you have everything mapped out, you don't have any time to do that extra to find something different or make a change to your plan if you prepaid for stuff.
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Vonnie: Yeah, that's true.
45:02
important to have a balanced group that you go with.
45:06
I think that might be key.
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Yes.
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drea: about that.
45:10
Let's talk about that.
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Let's talk about that, who you travel with, guys who you listen.
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y'all know,
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Keya: It make or break a trip.
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drea: make or
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Keya: or
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Vonnie: sure.
45:23
drea: I
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if, if I can't travel in the country with you.
45:27
I definitely won't go out the country because y'all know, there's been at least three occasions of my life where I have straight left my motherfucking friends and went back home, changed my flight, and left them and, and didn't talk to them for a long time afterwards.
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You know what I'm saying?
45:41
Like for real, for real.
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can't, me personally, can't travel with everybody.
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You know what I mean?
45:50
I don't know about y'all, but what would you say?
45:55
Keya: No, I absolutely agree.
45:56
It definitely makes or break a trip.
45:58
Um, we all know, we've all had those moments where we're like, no.
46:06
cannot travel with you because.
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You gonna have us in somebody's jail in another country, or I'm gonna end up whooping your ass.
46:16
And that's definitely, um, a agreement from me.
46:23
It, who you travel with matters
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Vonnie: Yeah,
46:26
Keya: sure.
46:28
drea: It
46:28
Vonnie: sure.
46:28
I don't like, um, you know, I think that I haven't had super bad.
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Travel experiences where I've, you know, changed my flight and left.
46:39
However, I'm not as impressed with, like you said earlier, people who just wanna stay.
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Um, except if it's an all-inclusive resort.
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But if people who just wanna stay in the room, uh, that's no fun.
46:50
I don't wanna travel with you.
46:52
Um, people who I, when I'm going to a location, I wanna be able to get out there and see things, but I don't want to, I'll pick up souvenirs along the way, but I don't wanna go to little shop after shop after shop after shop.
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To me, I'm like, I wanna be out amongst the people.
47:09
I wanna be trying local cuisines.
47:12
I don't wanna be in stores all the time,
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but everyone I know loves shop.
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I love to travel to eat.
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Ah, man, I could go on it.
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That could be a vlog if I could do that.
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Just going places and eating.
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I'm sure I can, but like, I can't.
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drea: we totally could do that.
47:31
I, before weed became legal here, I used to, because I didn't, you know, work and all of that, I used to wanna do a weed traveling blog and go to different places and eat and smoke.
47:43
Just talk about the differences of weed and stuff like that, because just even that, like it's, it's a whole nother underground thing for that too.
47:51
But yeah, eating,
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Vonnie: is good.
47:52
When we went to,
47:53
when I went to Barbados and we rented a house and it came with the house staff whose job it was to cook us dinner and lunch and um, you know, whatever.
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We wanted to have them cook, they would cook.
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And on one of the last nights we were like, can you cook what you would cook for your family?
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And I swear to you, that was the best meal I've had in the Caribbean period.
48:18
They, I mean, they had a whole spread from fish.
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They were like, normally this would be a Sunday night dinner.
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Um, it wasn't Sunday, but they were gonna do it for us, and we gobbled it up.
48:28
It was so much food.
48:29
It was just so great to have local cuisine made by them.
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Not, you know, some restaurant or anybody.
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It was
48:37
good.
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drea: I
48:39
say having your own chef.
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Your, you know, where you're staying is a
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Vonnie: It's a different line.
48:47
drea: because when I experienced that in Puerto, the Amazing food,
48:54
then when, even when I went to Rocky Point, there was one night where we hired a private chef they came in and cooked for us.
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Totally
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Vonnie: yeah, yeah.
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drea: down the street.
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So, yeah.
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I'm I'm right there for you.
49:08
Vonnie: And younger me would not have had that.
49:09
But like we said, like.
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If you haven't done anything like that, level up at least once, get a bunch of people like, I didn't do this.
49:16
It was just like me and my husband.
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Like get a bunch of people so it's not, you know, breaking the bank.
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Yeah.
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It's worth it to have a bunch of people in a nice ass house living like you'll never live at home.
49:32
drea: Facts.
49:33
Facts.
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'cause when I went to Puerto Theta, baby, I did not wanna come home.
49:36
I felt like, I felt like I was a balling.
49:38
I felt like I was bawling for some,
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Vonnie: Yeah.
49:41
drea: You know what I'm
49:43
It was, it was a very nice experience.
49:45
At first I was like, why?
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I gotta pay so much money.
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Then I get there.
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I said, oh,
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Vonnie: definitely worth it.
49:49
drea: worth it.
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back.
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You know what I'm saying?
49:52
I wanna go back.
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But if I went back to that same place I stayed, honey, I, I'm gonna need about 10 friends to roll and hope I get along with them.
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And if not, it don't matter
50:01
as
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Vonnie: Yeah.
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drea: get along with them.
50:06
But I
50:06
Keya: You
50:07
drea: back to like, traveling with
50:09
just
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Vonnie: Oh yeah.
50:10
drea: Like, know, I, I just feel like that's a, a really big thing for people who are just getting into traveling or, you know, just unsure like you.
50:19
When you find the right travel people, it re it really makes your life better.
50:24
You know, like
50:25
Keya: that
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drea: a husband and who, who likes
50:27
to
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Vonnie: Yeah.
50:28
To a point.
50:29
drea: what I right?
50:31
But that's what I love about your relationship is you literally have a husband who is good with you rolling.
50:37
Vonnie: Yeah.
50:37
Yeah,
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drea: and
50:39
Vonnie: right.
50:40
drea: he doesn't feel like he has to go.
50:43
Um, he doesn't stop you from going 'cause you wanna go.
50:45
He doesn't
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Vonnie: yeah.
50:46
drea: you about it,
50:48
Um, and, I think that that's important because you guys do your thing together, but then you guys are also like, yeah, no, I,
50:55
Vonnie: Yeah.
50:55
drea: do that, but you can
50:56
Vonnie: But you said it right?
50:57
You said it right earlier.
50:58
Andrea, you need to, if you were thinking about traveling internationally with someone and you haven't traveled with them before, do a quick turnaround, weekend trip somewhere local.
51:11
even that whole airplane, like how are they, do they get to the airport on time?
51:16
Are they, you know what I mean?
51:18
There's like so many different stresses and Yes,
51:22
there are so, there are so many stressors along the way.
51:27
Getting there is the easy part.
51:29
It's up through there.
51:31
And then once you get there, I mean, there are so many different things.
51:33
So my husband and I, he is awful up until we get to wherever we're going.
51:39
Awful.
51:40
Like there is not a time where we're not bickering and it doesn't matter.
51:43
Local internet, you know, Hawaii, we've only been.
51:48
drea: my gosh.
51:48
I have someone like
51:49
Vonnie: We drove to Vegas to get married.
51:52
And from to the drive there, we were at it.
51:54
His mom was in the backseat, like, is this what you guys want?
51:59
It was like, once we get there, it's fine, but we don't like each other's driving styles.
52:05
We don't.
52:05
I mean, so it's always something.
52:07
Um,
52:09
drea: the worst.
52:11
That's the worst.
52:13
Vonnie: but,
52:14
hmm, yeah.
52:15
yeah.
52:16
Knowing our personalities,
52:18
drea: conversation
52:19
Vonnie: up for that though.
52:20
When you're in more of an opposites attract type of a thing, I mean, you have to ground yourself in knowing that there are things that are going to annoy you and, and it's how you work through those.
52:31
But, um, yes, I would definitely not make a long flight, a long international trip the first time you ever travel with someone, um, because it could literally ruin your trip there.
52:49
drea: That's why I can travel far with Keya because she definitely my madness
52:54
because I start getting, I start getting very irritable at times, traveling far.
53:03
Um, and not because I'm not happy I'm going, but because my, like my.
53:07
A DHD kicks in.
53:09
I can't sleep well on the flight.
53:10
I always do better coming back, right Keya?
53:12
Keya: Yeah.
53:13
drea: I'm exhausted and I'm tired.
53:15
But like, it, it, and then, you know, it's just, um, where she understands it and what, and, and she's okay with it.
53:23
She had to sit in the middle, or we have to switch seats because I fidget a lot.
53:27
I move around, I adjust.
53:29
I just be like, oh my gosh, I gotta get up and walk for a second.
53:33
Oh my gosh.
53:34
You know, that type of thing.
53:35
But she'd just be sitting there looking at me like, bro, I'm going back to sleep.
53:38
I'd be like, I, but I'm gonna move around.
53:40
You know what I'm saying?
53:41
Like, so she, it doesn't, it doesn't bother her.
53:44
Where some people it would, or, you know, just things like that.
53:48
It's because all have our little thing
53:51
Vonnie: Yeah, no, Keya's great.
53:53
Keya: do.
53:54
drea: how chill we are or whatever, like we all have our thing.
53:58
Yeah, Keya is, Keya is really chill.
53:59
She'd just be like, okay, every now and then she'll, she'll have her moment, but she doesn't express it.
54:04
So it's just kind of like, you just gotta know.
54:06
What I'm saying, but it's not very, it's not very often if that makes sense.
54:10
Have y'all traveled with people who have
54:12
Vonnie: Oh, no.
54:12
drea: out traveling?
54:14
Or let's say out the country, who wanna act a damn fool?
54:17
That's where I get anxiety.
54:19
I ain't trying to go to jail nowhere.
54:21
That's, that's where my anxiety kicks in and why I can't
54:25
Vonnie: Yeah.
54:25
drea: some people,
54:26
Vonnie: no, we got yelled at in Puerto Rico.
54:27
They told us in Spanish they were gonna call the police on us.
54:30
It was Wednesday and we were partying like it was a Saturday night.
54:33
It was our last day.
54:35
But no, it was, that was the only time we were the ones causing the scene.
54:39
But we were all doing it together.
54:40
But that's the thing, if somebody's not, if you're not, if your energies aren't matched, man, that's the worst.
54:46
'cause somebody who's
54:48
or you know, say they're drunk and they're these angry drunks or these obnoxious drunks and you're sitting there, I feel bad for you, Drea, because there are so many times when you're texting us and you're literally babysitting and you're out with people and I was like, oh, this poor that she can't even enjoy herself.
55:08
drea: I can't, I can't, can't not be responsible or care, you know what I'm saying?
55:15
Keya: Right.
55:16
drea: don't drink and I see the shit in the fuckery in people sometimes it's like, oh my gosh, like this is not what I signed up for.
55:25
know what I'm saying?
55:26
Like this is not, yeah.
55:28
And, but at the same time, I can't just be the person to just ignore it and just leave whoever I'm traveling with.
55:34
Like, fuck it.
55:34
If you get arrested, you, you know what I mean?
55:36
Or you fall over it.
55:37
Now I can't, I can't do that to somebody.
55:40
so then it's like that mother part of me kicks in where it's like, ah, dog, it, why do I gotta care?
55:47
Keya: Right.
55:47
Like why?
55:48
drea: I just leave them and go back to my room?
55:51
I gotta make sure they make it back too.
55:53
Vonnie: I love New Orleans now.
55:54
I've heard mixed things.
55:57
a few times for work, for not for work with work people, with family, with.
56:02
Um, the thing I love about New Orleans is
56:09
the Stark 180 degree difference.
56:13
If you're down there in the French Quarter during the day, and then when you're there in that exact same location where you were at night, it is like two different cities at once.
56:28
drea: So for me, it's funny you brought up New Orleans 'cause I was thinking of that earlier.
56:32
New Orleans is the one city that I will go to anytime, any day just to eat.
56:37
I love going to New Orleans to eat.
56:42
I love New Orleans.
56:43
I've been there.
56:43
That's probably in the us the, in the States.
56:47
That is the most place I think I've traveled to more than one multiple times, aside from Seattle.
56:52
But that's 'cause I can fly there for free.
56:54
Cali doesn't count.
56:55
But I've been to New Orleans so many times.
56:58
I was actually supposed to go there this coming weekend, but she changed our plans to Vegas instead.
57:03
Um, but New Orleans, I'm with you on that.
57:05
I love New Orleans.
57:06
I mean, I'm probably biased because brother-in-law who passed, he's from there.
57:11
So my sister lived there for a long time with her kids.
57:14
Um, he brought the culture to us here.
57:16
And then, you know, I traveled, I've been in Mardi Gras a few times.
57:19
I've been there without Mardi, which I just recently went last year.
57:22
Went to a football game there and I, I I had a great time.
57:26
Yeah.
57:27
I, I love New Orleans.
57:28
They,
57:29
Vonnie: Yeah.
57:30
drea: now, you have
57:31
what corner you hit, and you definitely have to be safe.
57:35
That is not a place where you wanna roll with a big ass purse, you know what I'm saying?
57:39
Like, it, it, it has its pockets.
57:42
Vonnie: Oh, for sure.
57:42
drea: be honest,
57:43
Keya: I've only been to New Orleans, um, for essence fests,
57:48
Yeah.
57:48
I'm gonna have to, well, we're gonna have to, that, that's probably gonna have to be one of our trips.
57:54
um, I have a funny story since
57:57
Vonnie: Yes.
57:57
Keya: I don't think I ever even told y'all.
57:59
So, um, Africa, y'all right?
58:03
Africa, to the mall and Africa had these.
58:14
gummies.
58:15
And so their, their C-B-D-T-H-C levels.
58:21
Like, hi, y'all know I don't smoke, I don't, nothing all.
58:26
Do y'all hear me?
58:28
Nothing at all.
58:29
But I'm like, oh, I wanna try these gummies.
58:32
'cause you know, they're from Africa.
58:34
Like, why?
58:36
I don't know, but okay, cool.
58:39
I buy them, and mind you, I take them on the plane.
58:45
like, yo, maybe this is a time to try it.
58:48
Like, and I'll just a
58:50
Vonnie: Oh my God.
58:51
Keya: just
58:52
drea: Wait, you got to
58:53
bring, hold
58:53
Keya: Is this
58:54
drea: to bring it back on the
58:55
plane.
58:56
Keya: did, I did.
58:59
No problem.
59:00
And I don't,
59:01
drea: you know, I'm trying to plan my trip to South Africa
59:03
'cause I
59:04
Keya: girl.
59:05
drea: this back on the plane because,
59:07
Vonnie: No.
59:07
cause see, she takes edibles.
59:09
I'm on the fact that you took it and you're in enclosed space with no way out.
59:13
Uh uh, I'm waiting for this.
59:16
Keya: out, but listen,
59:18
tell y'all.
59:19
So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna just, I'll, I'll bite off a little piece.
59:25
Yo, y'all know y'all friend is a lightweight and drinking.
59:28
I don't smoke, don't eat edibles, don't I bit into this?
59:32
And I was like, oh, it's fine.
59:35
I ain't, you know what I'm saying?
59:37
Like, it's nothing.
59:38
Then all of a sudden I'm like, shit.
59:41
Like, is my head spinning?
59:44
Like, okay, I, I think it is spinning, but now I gotta pee, let, lemme get up and go pee.
59:52
Vonnie: Oh,
59:53
Keya: So
59:53
Vonnie: up.
59:55
Keya: and I'm, girl, listen.
59:57
I go in the bathroom and I'm like.
1:00:00
Uh, okay.
1:00:03
Um, this is weird.
1:00:08
yo, there's like, I'm floating and then I'm like, I'm seeing people dancing.
1:00:14
Mind you, I'm in the bathroom by myself.
1:00:17
drea: not hallucinating
1:00:19
Vonnie: my gosh.
1:00:20
Keya: bathroom.
1:00:21
That's, that's not even the bad part.
1:00:24
I was like, okay, Keya, you came in here 'cause you gotta pee.
1:00:28
So I go like, mind y'all.
1:00:31
I'm thinking done, I'm thinking I lifted up the seat.
1:00:38
Y'all.
1:00:39
When I tell you I did not lift up the seats,
1:00:44
drea: Did you fall in the da?
1:00:46
Did
1:00:46
Vonnie: On the outside.
1:00:48
Keya: I pissed, I pissed on the toilet.
1:00:52
Like, and I'm like.
1:00:54
drea: seat.
1:00:55
Like on the,
1:01:02
Vonnie: Oh my gosh.
1:01:05
Keya: And by the time I realized it, I'm like, my
1:01:09
Vonnie: Oh
1:01:09
Keya: is wet.
1:01:10
What to do?
1:01:13
my God, how can't walk out there and I pee on myself.
1:01:19
That's not okay because dinner and mind y'all, I'm having a whole conversation in this bathroom by
1:01:25
Vonnie: you think there's people with you?
1:01:28
Keya: to, but it's only me because it's, and I'm
1:01:31
Vonnie: Oh my God.
1:01:34
Keya: like, okay, you need to think Chiquia, you have to think.
1:01:40
And I'm talking to myself like this in the.
1:01:46
And I was like, well you should probably take these off, now you're gonna have to stand on the dirty floor.
1:01:56
No, we're not doing that.
1:01:57
You can stand on your shoes.
1:02:00
Right?
1:02:01
One foot out.
1:02:03
One foot out.
1:02:05
Hi y'all.
1:02:06
I'm telling you, I'm so high.
1:02:09
But I managed to step one foot out, one foot out.
1:02:12
I'm standing on my shoes and now I'm washing my leggings and the sink.
1:02:18
And so now I'm, I, it's, it's clean.
1:02:22
drea: finna come out wet?
1:02:24
Keya: And I did because I
1:02:26
had
1:02:26
Vonnie: Oh my God.
1:02:29
Keya: it was dark
1:02:30
Vonnie: Yep.
1:02:31
Keya: plane.
1:02:32
was
1:02:32
like, these go, no, you out.
1:02:36
And I must have been.
1:02:38
So to me, it felt like was only in the bathroom for.
1:02:44
five minutes.
1:02:45
I must have been in there so long because the flight attendant was like, are you okay?
1:02:51
And I remember looking at her like, why wouldn't I be okay?
1:03:00
Hi baby.
1:03:01
Just that piece of gummy a piece, y'all.
1:03:05
I didn't even eat half.
1:03:06
It was a piece,
1:03:08
Vonnie: That's crazy.
1:03:10
Keya: Yeah, that was crazy.
1:03:13
Crazy.
1:03:14
So yeah, people never, if you're not or an edible eater, do not
1:03:21
Vonnie: Just Don,
1:03:21
Keya: what
1:03:22
on
1:03:22
the airplane?
1:03:24
On an international flight, it's what the group chat say y'all.
1:03:30
Travel edition.
1:03:32
We hope y'all got some insight up out of our, uh, stories of travel.
1:03:40
drea: And if you have any questions or you want us to you more about traveling or you wanna know more, or you have, you know.
1:03:48
Feel free to drop us a little question, a comment.
1:03:50
We'll be happy to talk about it, address it anytime, any topic matter of fact.
1:03:56
But if you wanna hear more about travel or you have specific questions about it, holler at us.
1:04:01
We'll address it on the next one.
1:04:03
Keya: we hope y'all join us on the next
1:04:05
episode
1:04:06
Vonnie: so we can find out what that group chat say.